Also called architectural shingles, laminated asphalt shingles look much more like real slate than flatter three-tab shingles, outperformed them overall in the tests for our June 2009 report on shingles, and often cost less.

Much of the praise of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has to do with how imaginatively he has recast the notion of architectural monumentality in ways the Getty and its advisers never dreamed of when they chose Meier.

In the construction of a new school building there is nothing that should receive more careful and scientific consideration than the matter of lighting, but too often the architect is either entirely ignorant of the entire matter, or else is selfishly interested in so-called architectural effects.